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bump up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bump upverb

    increase or raise

    "OPEC bumped up the price of oil"

Wiktionary

  1. bump upverb

    To increase something suddenly.

  2. bump upverb

    To promote a person to a higher grade.

  3. bump upverb

    To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.

ChatGPT

  1. bump up

    To "bump up" means to increase or raise something. This could refer to increasing the size, quantity, quality, or intensity of something. It could also refer to advancing someone to a higher position or level.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bump up in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bump up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bump up in a Sentence

  1. Barbara Ferrer:

    We do need to move through the next few weeks with caution. At many other points where we've been reopening our sectors, we in fact have seen a bump up in our cases.

  2. Steve Bullock:

    I had a job to do, and if it ultimately ever came down to choosing between getting Medicare reauthorized, getting 100,000 Montanans healthcare versus getting in earlier just to try to bump up on yet another poll, I'd make that same choice time and time again.

  3. The IMF:

    If true, this would mean the U.S. economy could soon bump up against capacity constraints that would slow growth and generate domestic inflationary pressures with negative global spillovers.

  4. Barbara Ferrer:

    This would not be the time to think just because we are reopening that things are looking rosy, we do need to move through the next few weeks with caution. At many other points where we've been reopening our sectors, we in fact have seen a bump up in our cases.

  5. Bill Gross:

    Capital gains and the expectations for future gains will become Giant Pandas – very rare and sort of inefficient at reproduction, i'm saying that developed and emerging economies are flying at stall speed and they've got to bump up nominal GDP growth rates or else. Cross your fingers.


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